News Corp VCCircle Mobile Forum 2016

The Indian mobile industry is entering version 2.0. Already, there are more than one billion mobile phone subscribers in the country. Sixty per cent of Internet users in India access the World Wide Web on their cell phones, according to the Internet and Mobile Association of India. And mobile phones contribute at least 40% of all e-commerce sales in India as of 2015 compared with much lesser numbers in the UK and US.

Start-ups across sectors from healthcare to apparel sales and grocery shopping are building businesses on top of this mobile revolution and banking on growing Internet penetration to reach customers. The companies that will emerge as winners will have the most current information on new trends shaping the mobile economy and futuristic approach on monetization strategies.

What strategies will help start-ups make the best use of the mobile medium? How will interactive apps influence consumer behaviour? How do new-age businesses create an opportunity rather than seizing one? And most importantly what will the future business models centred on mobile? News Corp VCCircle's 5th Annual Mobile Forum will answer all these questions, and then some.

9:45AM-10:45AMPanel 1: Future of Mobile
Mobile ads, branded & video content, Free Basics, BOTS, Gamifications, enterprise mobility are few trends which are going to change the future of mobile. Will the monetization models also change? What will the current call and data revenues evolve into? How will mobile change the definition of money? How will companies include offline models to tap into larger markets?

11:10AM-11:55AMPanel 2: Trends shaping up the Mobile ads business
Globally, mobile ad spends are expected to touch US$100 billion in 2016 and capture 51 per cent of the digital market. India can have a big share of this revenue stream. Some of the trends to look out for are native advertising, in-store beacons, use of wearables, interactive ads, mobile coupons and Artificial Intelligence. Another important area which can have an impact on the mobile ad business are emergence of ad blocker software being developed by leading device makers. Considering so many innovations and challenges posed by ad blocking applications, what is the future of mobile ads?

11:55AM -12:40PMPanel 3: Monetizing Mobile: what clicks?
From branded content, innovative apps to gamification, what is the best strategy to monetize mobile? What are some of the set factors to decide the best strategy and also what does the future look like?

2:30PM-3:15PMPanel 4: Investor Perspective: The future of mobile-led investments
With a range of options to choose from, how does an investor zero on one? What are the deciding factors and checklist that startups need to keep in mind. Going forward, what do investors feel about funding the mobile economy of India?

3:50PM-4:35PMPanel 5: The future of Video Streaming
A big chunk of mobile monetization will come through video streaming, content and advertising. Companies like Meerkat, periscope, Jigsee, Voot, Snapchat and Facebook have already integrated video streaming within their strategic models. However, one of the biggest debates which stays around mobile video is if it should be free and customer engaging or should paywalls be set before hand? Also, with offline campaigns already making a breakthrough, what are some of the trends to look out for?

4:35PM-5:20PMPanel 6: Women & Mobile: Aligning consumer behaviour with monetization strategies
According to a recent study over 60 percent of women name their mobiles as the most important devices in their lives but almost 91 percent consider ads intrusive. Unlike men, women also like to shop in group, interact, consult, influence and then buy. Can tracking of these distinct factors make a successful business preposition through mobile? What defines the women consumer when it comes to mobile and how can these parameters be reaped to cultivate a healthy consumer base?

5:20PM-5:50PMShowcase: A distinctive showcase for startups to display their apps and ideas.
It is a curated platform for innovative mobile based startups and developers to make an elevator pitch to a select jury of angel investors, venture capitalists and fellow entrepreneurs. This is also a platform of choice for tech geeks, developers and early stage, pre-revenue startups for attracting investor attention and recognition.

Ajit Mohan is the CEO of Hotstar, India’s largest premium streaming platform. Under his leadership, Hotstar, launched in 2015 as a platform offering drama, movies and sports on demand, raced to become one of the fastest adopted new apps in the world.

Prior to Star, Ajit spent five years at McKinsey & Company, first in New York in its media practice, and later in India as a Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, where he co-authored India's Urban Awakening, a 2010 report outlining a policy approach to India's rapid urbanization. Between 2011 and 2012, he was a columnist for Wall Street Journal's India Real Time.

He holds an MA in Economics and International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and BASc in Computer Engineering from NTU in Singapore.

Akash Banerji is the Head, Marketing & Partnerships for the Viacom 18 digital ventures. Prior to this role, Akash was the Head of Marketing for Hotstar (2014-15) where he was responsible for the big bang launch and driving consumer acquisition.

He has thirteen years of consistent high performance in the marketing & sales/distribution domain with leading consumer centric MNCs in the area of managing & growing brands profitably. Akash has worked across various spectrums like Digital, Sports, General Entertainment & business integration (post acquisition) and led teams (marketing & cross-functional) with the aim of gaining market & mind share.

An alumnus of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi, Akash started his career in sales & marketing working for top-notch organizations like Pepsi & Marico straddling different geographies in the country. After spending close to five years in Marico, Akash decided to move to the fast-paced world of media.

Aakrit Vaish is Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik, one of the world's leading mobile personal assistant platforms. Aakrit started the company from his house in 2013, and as of of November 2016, it employs close to 500 people and has marquee investor partners such as Times Internet and Kalaari Capital. Aakrit has been responsible for pioneering the concept of chat based assistance way before companies like Facebook and Google launched assistants in 2016. Prior to Haptik, Aakrit was an early member of the team at Flurry, one of the world's largest mobile analytics and advertising platforms, acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Aakrit received his BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and was named as a contender to the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in 2015.

Mr. Anirudh Damani brings over ten years of energy experience and procuring energy customers. He owns Artha Energy Resources, an energy consultancy firm and is responsible for adding over 2 billion kWh worth of energy. He has set up a consultancy firm for facilitating investments into power projects across geographies and asset classes like wind, solar, hydro and bio-power. Apart from energy projects, Mr. Damani is an active angel investor and has held investments in several emerging startups including Oyo Rooms, Exotel, Inc42, Mobilewalla and Roadhouse Hostels.

Mr. Arun Gupta is a technology veteran turned serial entrepreneur with 23+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit. His visionary leadership offers a business edge to the companies founded, co founded by him or wherein he is Director on board.

Mr. Arun Gupta is the Co Founder of MagicTel Solutions, a subsidiary of MoMagic Technologies. Founded in the year, 2012 MagicTel today, is #1 player in the Retail distribution space in India. Some of the top global mobile apps are part of MagicTel network and distributed through its retail channel -App Junction. MagicTel currently has acquired more than 5 million users for these global Apps through its channel.

Mr. Gupta is also the CEO and Founder of MoMagic Technologies. And Co Founder, mChamp Entertainments, a celebrity driven contest app. Also invested in education startup: EduAce. Prior to venturing on his own, Mr. Gupta has held many significant positions in the IT sector and has expansive experience and profound knowledge base in Product Development and Mobile Technology.

Mr. Gupta was also the Director at MediaTek for almost a decade and the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI. Arun holds a Master’s Degree in M-Tech from COEP Pune and Executive Management from IIM Calcutta.

Deepak Gaur is Managing Director in SAIF Partners,one of the largest and active funds in the country across early and growth stage companies. Deepak joined SAIF in 2006 and in his prior role was a consultant with McKinsey & Company focused on Consumer products/services, IT, telecom and the automotive sector. He also worked with IBM Global services in their Telecom and Media services division. His primary area of focus is growth equity investments in technology driven businesses. Mr. Gaur was awarded the Chairman’s Gold medal in IIM Lucknow and has a B.Tech. in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur.

Deven Dharamdasani, co-founder of Seventynine, is a high achieving digital industry leader who has developed and executed strategy across varied portfolios and myriad business streams. His strong brand knowledge combined with his natural instinct to thrive in fluid and challenging environment has governed his 15 year stint in the digital eco-system.

Deven's entrepreneurial journey kicked-off at Quasar Media, where he was part of the founding team, followed by Blazar media which he co-founded and all through the span he was highly effective developing and cultivating deep relationships with top-level executives (CXOs) but also capable to interact and contribute at grass-root level (campaign managers, analysts). Both Blazar and Quazar were acquired by WPP group eventually.

He aces at new business creation; from business plan development, hiring and mentoring talent, revenue, to market leadership. For the past decade or so, he has been deeply involved with efforts to drive digital marketing growth in the region through advocacy, education, and innovation.

Deepit Purkayastha is Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Inshorts, erstwhile, News in Shorts. In his capacity as Chief Strategy Officer, he is responsible to oversee the business and strategic roadmap for the enterprise. In his 4th year of IIT Kharagpur, Deepit teamed up with Azhar Iqubal and Anunay Pandey to build Inshorts the pioneer of short form content in India.

Mr. Dilip Asbe is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) since August 2013 prior to which he had been Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since inception of the company i.e. January 2010.He has played a leadership role in setting up and management of National Financial Switch (NFS) as well as Cashnet, the first and second largest Domestic Switching Networks in India having very high processing capabilities. He has also designed and operationalised one of the first real time mobile top up processing platforms in India.

He has to his credit major achievements like setting up of entire backbone infrastructure for Euronet worldwide in Asia Pacific region and for Prizm Payments Services in India before joining NPCI. During his stint as CTO at NPCI, he has designed and operationalised IMPS (Immediate Payment system), RuPay (India's Own Card), Automated Clearing House (ACH) platforms. He has built high capacity platforms and strong team within NPCI, which is processing over 700 million transactions a month.

Dr Aparna Hegde is the Founder, Chairperson and Managing Trustee of ARMMAN, a Mumbai-based nonprofit dedicated to the wellbeing of mothers and children under the age five. ARMMAN’s projects make innovative use of mobile technology to maximize outreach and achieve scale and have impacted more than 6 lakh lives. Dr. Hegde is also one of the very few fellowship trained urogynecologists in the country. She is the Co-Founder and Director of UPHI (Urogynecology and Pelvic Health Institute), a tertiary, clinical and academic centre of excellence in Urogynecology and Pelvic reconstructive surgery in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, India. She was awarded a two year IUGA (International Urogynecological Association) fellowship which she completed in the prestigious department of Urogynecology at Cleveland Clinic Florida. She is an accomplished researcher with a master’s degree from Stanford University and is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Urogynecology Journal and the Education Committee of the IUGA. She is invited internationally to speak on her research in multicompartment imaging of the pelvic floor.

Dr. Hegde is a TEDx speaker and was also featured as one of the five global women leaders featured in the 2015 Voice of America documentary, “A Single Step: Journeys of Women Leaders” narrated by Academy award winning actress Sally Field.

Gautam is a global executive with 30 years of rich experience including a wealth of startup and industry expertise. He is currently the CEO of Times Internet Ltd., the digital arm of The Times of India Group, where he drives the strategy, vision and execution for all the internet, mobile and telecommunication properties of the group.

Prior to Times Internet Ltd., Gautam was the Chief Operating Officer of CashEdge Inc, a company based out of New York and California working in payments and wealth management, where he worked since 2001 building and leading the company from startup to profitability. Prior to CashEdge, he held senior management positions at Sevant, Aspect Communications, at the Neural Applications Corporation, and at the Ministry of Defense in India (DRDO). He believes in the Indian startup ecosystem and is an active early stage investor.

Being Vice President of Yeahmobi Investment, Founder & Managing Director of Cyber Carrier VC Fund, Ms. Jessica Wong is a dynamic professional and a specialist in business network consolidating. She is responsible for all Yeahmobi’s investment operation in India, which covers business development, brand building and management, investment strategic planning and execution, and post-investment incubational management etc.

Jessica Wong has extensive experience in the field of venture capital investment for TMT project and corporate clientele business development through association with hi-tech companies, fund managers and other investors in China, India and the US.

Prior to joining Eight Roads, Kabir was with Warburg Pincus where he completed investments in a leading budget hotel chain, a port and a BPO company in India. At the firm, he worked extensively in healthcare delivery, financial services (including managing portfolio investments in Kotak Mahindra Bank, Max India) and IT Services/BPO. Kabir has worked at leading consulting firms, McKinsey & Co. in India and the Boston Consulting Group in the US. His consulting projects were in the areas of strategy and operations in the US, UK and India. Kabir holds a BA Hons degree in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Mr. Karan Mohla is Executive Director at IDG Ventures India Advisors and is involved with the investments in Brainbees (Firstcry.com), Yatra.com, Vserv, Peel-Works, HealthifyMe, POPxo, Aurus (Superprofs.com), Tripoto, LittleBlackBook and Silverpush. He has been investing in Indian companies since 2009 and leads the sector coverage in Digital Consumer investments at IDG Ventures.

Prior to IDG Ventures, Karan worked with QVT Finance LP, a US based hedge fund and was a founding member of their Asia-Pacific practice heading investments in technology companies in the region. He earlier worked in the technology banking group at Jefferies & Company (formerly Broadview International) in Silicon Valley, where he helped several emerging technology companies in capital raising, M&A and strategic partnerships. Later, Karan helped start the Jefferies India office.

A seasoned entrepreneur with a penchant for start up success, Martin is the architect behind the nanu business. Martin has made a career out of delivering profitable high tech sales and communications solutions to the maritime and software industries, spanning Asia and Europe. Product expertise includes CRM, ERP, CCTV, SIM card, banking and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) software.

nanu was conceived from Martin’s singular mission to revolutionize the telecommunications industry and put an end to telco dominance.

Mohit is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital and serves on the board of Citrus Payment CleverTap, DailyHunt, Ideacts Innovations, Knowlarity, Near, nearbuy, Octro, OneAssist, Shuttl & Zomato. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, he served as the Senior Vice President at BhartiAirtel where he helped scale the business from a few states operation into a leading national wireless carrier. Earlier, he co-founded Bright pod, a wireless start-up in the US, by orchestrating a spin off from Ericsson Mobile Systems. He has received an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill and an MSEE from Virginia Tech.

Nidhi Agarwal is the Founder & CEO of KAARYAH Lifestyle Solutions Pvt. Ltd.. Aside from being promoted by Mr. Badri Agarwal (ex-President, Airtel) KAARYAH has secured investments from Mr. Ratan Tata and has raised its Series A funding from The Saha Fund & Mr. Mohandas Pai.

Nidhi has 15+ years of experience in Strategy Consulting and Auditing. She was the Director, Strategy at Honeywell, India where she helped them develop their Space and Missiles business, enabling component sales for the ‘Mangalyaan’ mission.

Prior to that, she was the Strategy Consultant at Bain&Co where she drafted market entry strategies for FMCG companies. She has also worked for KPMG and Bharti Airtel before joining Honeywell. Nidhi developed and launched India’s first M-commerce product at Airtel where she discovered her interest in Marketing Analytics and Strategy. She is a Chartered Accountant and has a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management, where she received the prestigious Dean’s Service Award.

Nilesh Kothari has 23 years of corporate finance, underwriting and treasury experience in tech, consulting and financial services. Prior to this he was the M.D. - Ventures and Acquisitions at Accenture plc., a $30 Billion global technology and consulting company. Previously he was CFO of Accenture Credit Services, HeroBPO and Systems America.

He has deep operational experience in building several large businesses and creating successful exits like Zenta. He has experience of Structured Finance and Ratings at ICRA (A Moody’s Associate) and Debt Funds Management at JM Mutual Fund. He has a master of management Studies (MMS) degree from BITS, Pilani and AICWA.

Pradeep Lokhande’s goal to reach out and contribute to the development of rural India inspired him to embark on a mission 20 years ago, which is today known as Rural Relations. Banking on one of his prime area of interests, Information Technology, Pradeep installed used computers in rural secondary schools, where the interest and curiosity of students is very high. Till 2009 Rural Relations was able to install 20,000 used computers directly or indirectly across 10 states in India.

Post the success of this initiative, Pradeep embarked on yet another movement named Non-Resident Villagers (NRV) movement. With the help of NRV, till date 3,280 Gyan-key libraries in rural secondary schools have been established. In addition to this Pradeep is also credited with the game changer initiative villagewiKY, which is an open information platform of key and feeder villages of India.

Mr. Chandrashekhar is President of NASSCOM, the premier trade body for the IT-BPO Industry in India. He has had an illustrious career with rich experience in Government. He has been Chairman of the Telecom Commission and Secretary in the Department of Telecommunications in the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India from September, 2010 till his retirement from Government service at the end of March, 2013.

As Telecom Secretary, he was responsible for driving several key policies and strategies covering licensing, spectrum management, National Broadband Plan, Convergence, Manufacturing, Investment, security, R&D and the National Telecom Policy 2012. As the Secretary of the Department of Information Technology, he steered the formulation of national policies for the IT sector and for promoting Electronic System Design and Manufacturing and R&D in the Electronics and IT sector. Earlier, he established the first Department of Information Technology in the country in the state of Andhra Pradesh and was Secretary of the Department from June, 1997 to December, 1999.

He was conferred the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for the year 2007-08. He has been conferred several awards including Data Quest Path Breaker of the Year Award in 2005 and Distinguished Alumnus award of IIT-Mumbai in 2010.

Rishi Batra is co-founder, COO and CFO of Fashalot, India’s first O2O location-based fashion store discovery platform. He takes the lead in overseeing finance and operations, retailer partnerships, offline marketing, team building and strategic management of the organization. Rishi’s exceptional skills and deep understanding of media, retail and digital industries has led to the launch of Fashalot, along with co-founders Amit Koshal and Amit Sharma.

Rishi started his career as a senior analyst with Copal Partners. In his earlier stint as a chief manager with the Times Group, Rishi was leading investments and strategic partnerships in digital, media and travel for Brand Capital (North). He has spearheaded marquee transactions foronline travel, B2B portals, e-commerce, insurance aggregators, social networks, mobile, Internet fashion brand, IT hardware and handset manufacturers like Yatra, Yepme, Indiamart, Matrix Cellular and Policybazaar to name a few. He has also participated in growth initiatives and business strategies of investee companies. With over a decade of experience in scaling up businesses by devising media strategies and investments for market share and revenue growth, Rishi’s contribution in setting up Fashalot has been phenomenal. Rishi works to build a strong and profitable business with an intention to capture 1 per cent of India’s fashion retail market revenues by 2018.

After graduating in mechanical engineering from University of Pune, he went on to pursue MBA from IMT Ghaziabad and FDU, USA. Rishi hails from a well-known business family with a successful chemical business run by his father. Rishi nurtures his philanthropic side whenever time permits.He participated in spreading awareness on gender equality by joining in the “Kickstart Equality” campaign run by CEQ. Apart from his interest in travel and sports, he loves to spend quality time with his family.

Sachin Bhatia is Co-Founder and CEO of TrulyMadly, India’s No 1 dating app for singles, which he co-founded in 2014.

Sachin also co-founded MakeMyTrip, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer and later led new product development to launch rail, bus and cab bookings. He helped MakeMyTrip become one of India's top travel brands and moved out from an operating role in 2010. He remains involved as an independent advisor to the company.

He is currently an active angel investor and mentor to many technology and mobile startups in India & South-East Asia like Shuttl, LittleBlackBook, Tripoto, GoVoyagin, CatchThatBus etc.

Sandeep is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Lumis Partners. At Lumis, Sandeep brings an entrepreneur spirit, a hands-on investing experience in India, and over fifteen years of global operating experience.

At Lumis, Sandeep is focused on building portfolio across higher education segment and human capital services in emerging markets. He is an active member in this sector and leads several activities across various public/private organizations in this ecosystem.

He began his professional career with Technology Management Leadership program at GE. His prior experiences include quality and technology leadership roles across various businesses of GE; and senior operating positions at 3Com.

Sandeep completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science from the Delhi Institute of Technology followed by postgraduate program from the London School of Economics.

Sanjeev Aggarwal is a co-founder of Helion and has served on the Boards of MakeMyTrip and Unitedlex. He is currently on the Boards of IndiaHomes, Azure Power, Amba Research, Eye-Q and ShopClues. Prior to Helion, Sanjeev was the Founder and CEO of Daksh, having been with the company from its inception in 2000 to its acquisition by IBM in 2004. Sanjeev ran the company as its CEO till June 2006. Daksh was a pioneer in BPO sector in year 2000 and had over 20,000 employees by June, 2006. During this period, Daksh was rated as the World's Best Managed BPO company (Black Book of Outsourcing) and was ranked as the #1 employer in Indian BPO market by IDC. Sanjeev was chosen "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year" in 2002.

Prior to founding Daksh, he worked for 15 years with leading technology companies serving the domestic Indian market. Sanjeev led the Strategic Initiatives at Motorola India. He worked with Digital Equipment Corporation in delivering technology solutions and was recognized as the "Decathlon Winner", a recognition given to top 1% managers worldwide. He also served as the CEO of 3COM India.

Sanna Vohra is the Founder and CEO of The Wedding Brigade, an inspiration, planning, shopping, and services portal for Indian weddings. The company recently raised its seed round of funding lead by Blume Ventures. Prior to The Wedding Brigade, she worked in technology investment banking at Morgan Stanley in New York. She graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 2012, where she co-founded the university's largest student-run business.

Srivatsa Krishna is currently Secretary, e-governance, and Chairman of KUIDFC (Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation). He led the team that launched MobileOne, which was certified as the world’s largest mobile governance platform with over 4,000 services; set up India’s first Startup Warehouse; runs India’s largest e-procurement platform; launched free public Wi-Fi in Bangalore and is now setting up India's 1st Big Data city.

Earlier he worked in the Strategy, Finance and Risk Management Vice Presidency, World Bank Group, running one of their largest capital investment funds, performance management, offshoring and various PPP projects. The World Economic Forum at Davos recognised him as a Global Leader of Tomorrow and Thinkers50 as one of the top thought leaders in 2013. He is a prominent and influential commentator in both, national print and electronic media.

Sri Rajan is the Chairman of Bain India, with over 19 years of management consulting experience in India and the US. He was one of the founders of the Indian operations of Bain & Company. He has been responsible for the creation and execution of turnaround strategies for multiple diversified firms. Sri also has significant experience working with Private Equity firms and companies across the industrial, telecom and technology sectors.

Sri has been the co-founder of a tech startup in Silicon Valley and has also been on the Board of the American operations of CRY. He is currently on the board of an e-commerce logistics startup as well as a leading foundation focused on education. He is also on the advisory Board of Bridgespan India, which is an affiliate of Bain & Company that focuses on advising foundations and non-profit organizations. He has invested in and is on the advisory board of various startups in India. He writes regularly for top-tier publications such as Mint and The Economic Times. He is a member of the Global Agenda Council on India of the World Economic Forum.

Subrat is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vidooly, India’s only video marketing & analytics product for online video content creators, MCNs & brands. Before starting Vidooly, he worked for companies like Jabong & IndiaMART as a product manager and oversaw business critical product launch initiatives & fine-tuned the existing products.

An avid blogger, author and analyst; Subrat has represented Vidooly in many conferences and industry events. He has been an active part of the Indian startup ecosystem and has written articles on online video that have been published in Forbes, Kissmetrics and many other prestigious online publications. Despite studying Chemical Engineering in college, online video has always been his passion and his aim is to make Vidooly, the Nielsen of Online video industry.

Suchita Salwan is the founder & ceo of Little Black Book (www.lbb.in)- a web and app based local discoveries & recommendations platform. Little Black Book reaches out to over a million users every month, and is available in Delhi, Delhi, Bangalore and Bombay (launching soon). The platform sees some of the biggest brands in the world- including Airbnb, Samsung, Taj, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Nestle- and a plethora of local brands connect and engage with a local audience.

She has graduated from Delhi University with a degree in Economics, after which she worked with Wizcraft and the BBC. Her forte and domain interest lies in Marketing, Social Media, Brand Building and Sales. She started Little Black Book as a platform for young, urban audiences to access the best things that were happening in their city- across interests and locations. Today, she runs LBB with her co-founder Dhruv Mathur and 50 colleagues.

Sunil K. Goyal is the founder and CEO of YourNest Angel Fund. Prior to founding YourNest, Sunil has won recognition for playing instrumental roles in well-known business like Bharti Group & Dabur. Sunil is also an independent director on the Board of Bharti Telecom Limited (Holding company of Bharti Airtel Limited) and Bharti Hexacom Ltd (A JV with TCIL, a GoI undertaking).

Sunil is a former member of TiE, Indian Angel Network & Mumbai Angels. His passion for early stage ventures has led him to invest in 9 start-ups on his own, before he set-up YourNest. Recently, Sunil got an exit to global players from his first personal investment company ZipDial, which has been acquired by Twitter and in VuClip, which has been acquired by PCCW.

Sunil is referred to as the techno-savvy mind behind designing the Oxigen Technology for dispensation of various service & products to the Retail in India. He is designated Deputy Managing Director, in October 2011, to support the Chairman of Oxigen in overall conduct of Oxigen business.

Sunil has successfully led the company's development & growth and would now be focused on Oxigen's biggest opportunity covering Banking , Remittances, Mobile wallets, Merchant payments, IMPS, to propel Oxigen into its next growth phase. He will also be responsible for effective strategy on Risk mitigation and Fraud prevention.

In his new role as Chief Strategy Officer,Tushar guides GroupM’s future focused vision by harnessing data, digital and content. He works closely with regional and global teams to develop relevant solutions for emerging categories like ecommerce.Tushar had launched Digital Media business unit (Interaction) for GroupM India and build up the team and expanded services in areas like search, mobile and social. GroupM digital Media practise (MindShare Interaction, Maxus Interaction and MEC Interaction) is leading digital media solution provider with more than 140 clients.

Tushar was also part of SureWaves start-up team. SureWaves is creating the SureWaves Media Grid – An integrated Ad Aggregation, Content Delivery, Network Management, Media Planning & Reporting Platform for multiple forms of digital media other than Internet. Tushar has been speaker at various online, mobile & digital media summit and was part of IAMAI governing council.

Vasuta Agarwal is the GM - India at InMobi. In this role, Vasuta is responsible for the strategic roadmap and revenue for InMobi's India business including developer, brand and commerce partnerships. In her previous role as VP for Business Development, she managed the global partner management team responsible for account management and revenue growth of all key publisher/supply side relationships across North America, LATAM, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Vasuta is a graduate from BITS and has an MBA from IIM Bangalore. Prior to joining InMobi, she worked with McKinsey for 2 years.

Vikas Agarwal is the General Manager - India at OnePlus. At OnePlus, he is responsible for driving strategic partnerships and the fully localized service operations in India.

Overall, Vikas has close to 12 years of cross-functional experience across private equity, real estate and e-commerce domains. Prior to joining OnePlus, Vikas served as a Director of Corporate Excellence at IBIBO (part of MIH-Naspers Group) where he led the business operations of their marketplace vertical.

Earlier, he was part of the founding team and part of the investment team at Ivanhoe Cambridge India (real estate vertical of La Caisse, one of the biggest pension fund in North America).

In 2004, Vikas graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi with B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Chemical Engineering. Later, he received his Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in 2007. Vikas currently lives in Bengaluru, along with his wife and son.

Virginia Sharma is the Director of Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn India. As part of the senior leadership team at LinkedIn India, Virginia’s focus is to help leading enterprises and marketers meaningfully engage with professionals on the LinkedIn platform, with relevant and valuable content. She leads a sales team who consult marketers and agencies create and execute high-impact content marketing campaigns.

Virginia has been a marketer all her life. Before this role, she was the Director, Marketing for LinkedIn APAC, where she designed and drove effective marketing campaigns to grow the LinkedIn Talent Solutions Business. Virginia started her career at IBM and held several marketing leadership positions across North America, APAC and India, including Vice President of Marketing and Communications for IBM India/South Asia. Before joining LinkedIn, she had to her credit 15 years of experience in the marketing industry and has won several awards including Asia’s Most Influential CMOs in 2015 by CMO Asia.

An alumnus of New York University, Virginia is a global marketer who brings extensive business and leadership experience to her role at LinkedIn.

Vishal brings with him over fifteen years of leadership experience in the telecom and mobile internet space with organizations such as Yahoo! India and BPL Mobile, and ten years of product and brand management experience at Parle, Warner Lambert and SBI Cards. Appointed in January 2016 as Vuclip’s Country Manager for India, Vishal’s core responsibilities include driving consumer adoption, engagement and monetisation for its OTT video on demand (VOD) services in India through strategic partnerships, service innovation and consumer insights.

Vishal is a founder partner at Serendipity Investments since the year 2013. His advisory experience to start ups in the consumer internet space will help Vuclip enhance their portfolio in India.

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• Audi Delhi West is conv....More

Buzzmeeh is a one stop shop for all things mobile. All mobile users are potential customers for their business model. They provide an online platform to accessorize your mobile phone with a small but nifty collection of mobile accessories. An extension to this platform is their offering of spare parts for different types of devices. They have recently launched a buyback program where they encourage people to get maximum value for their old phones and refurbish them to sell them on their online refurbished mobile selling portal. The service comes full circle with their core business which is mobile mending, making them a home for all kinds of smart services for your smart devices. They started operations in October 2015 and have been on a steady path to become synonym to quality services in mobile repair industry. Few of their service offerings that set them apart from others are free pick up and drop of customer devices, providing a smart standby device to customer and several level....More

Tata Docomo Business Services is a growing market leader in the enterprise space and provides end to end integrated Voice, Data and Managed solutions to large and small medium enterprises through its wider network footprint, better operational structure and enhanced customer service support to deliver incremental value. Tata Docomo has a robust and largest fibre optic backbone backhaul network running across 1,00,000 km and with a 25,000 km access network covering key cities which is a huge differentiator in providing seamless data services. With 2000 people Tata Docomo Business Services strong enterprise business is present in more than 60 cities across India, works with over 750 partners and 1600 channel teams.

It is one of the pioneers in providing FTTH (Fibre-to-home) which runs on state-of-the-art Gigabit Passive Optical Networking, the GPON technology. Its machine-to-machine (M2M) offerings enable business customers to automate and remotely manage a range of activiti....More

10,000 Startups is an ambitious attempt by NASSCOM to scale up the startup ecosystem in India by 10x. 10,000 Startups aims to enable incubation, funding and support for 10,000 technology startups in India over the next ten years.

To meet these objective the program aims to bring together key stakeholders of the ecosystem including startup incubators / accelerators, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup support groups, mentors and technology corporations.

With 10,000 Start-ups NASSCOM aims to build a vibrant ecosystem for technology entrepreneurship in India.

TLabs is the leading technology accelerator in India that operates a 4 month program, twice a year, with 60+ mentors supporting the companies that become part of it. With 6 Batches and 36 companies, TLabs has seen a tremendous success rate with over 65% of the companies getting funded raising over $200k investments per team. Startups that go through the program get intensive mentoring from in-house and external mentors to shape ideas into viable businesses.

Startup Grind is a global startup community educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 150 cities and 65 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. For more information visit StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrindIN / @StartupGrindMum.

Indian Angel Network, India's first and largest angel network, brings together successful entrepreneurs and CEOs who share a passion to enable more early stage businesses to create scale and value. By focusing on startups, the Network addresses the current acute lack of funds available to early stage companies. The Network believes that early stage businesses require more than just money to succeed. They require close mentoring and inputs on strategy as well as execution.

Indian Angel Network currently has over 300 members drawn from across the country and some from overseas, comprising the who's who of successful Indian entrepreneurs and CEOs from diverse sectors (information on www.indianangelnetwork.com). The Network has met with early success and has already invested in 100 portfolio companies including investee and incubatee companies. IAN has become the hub for innovative ventures founded by high quality entrepreneurs seeking mentoring an....More

Mumbai Angels, started in 2006 is the first premium Angel network in India. The Mumbai Angels provides a unique platform to start up and very early stage companies by bringing them face to face with successful entrepreneurs, professionals and executives who are interested in and have the funds available to invest in start-up companies. Many members of Mumbai Angels have prior Silicon Valley experience. In addition to the capital of its members, the Mumbai Angels provides access to high quality mentoring, vast networks in India and abroad and inputs on strategy as well as execution.

Mumbai Angels provides its portfolio companies with a level of assistance that surpasses their highest expectations. Mumbai Angels network of relationships and their ability to leverage those relationships on behalf of their portfolio companies is unparalleled. Mumbai Angles members and their organisations have come to represent the ideal business partner for entrepreneurs who wish to start and....More

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently 13,000 members, including over 2,500 charter members in 61 chapters across 18 countries. TiE’s mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, education, incubation and education. Dedicated to the virtuous cycle of wealth creation and giving back to the community, TiE and TiE Rajasthan’s focus is on generating and nurturing our next generation of entrepreneurs.

TiE Rajasthan is a vibrant and active chapter of TiE Global founded in 2002. Being honoured with the coveted award for being ‘The Most Improved Chapter 2014-15’, TiE Rajasthan has been conducting popular events for entrepreneurs. The foremost and most widely known events that TiE Rajasthan hosts is Smash Up and TiEcon, which sees a host of entrepreneurs partic....More

Delhi startups is an active community of enthusiastic entrepreneurs which discusses about startups, ideas & opportunities.This community is blessed with 16000+ contributors along with investors & mentors who help startups to nurture their ideas.

Evolving from merely an online community, Delhi Startups has now started to organise events, allowing startups to pitch in front of leading industry experts.

Their future plans include giving a platform to budding entrepreneurs at college level, organise more fundraising events, provide mentorship to startups and much more.

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)
TiE is recognized as a global organization fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education. The purpose of TiE is to encourage and nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs and add to the virtuous cycle of wealth creation spurring development and economic growth of the world.

Founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and senior professionals with roots in Indus region, TiE is a unique platform which brings all the stake holders - Entrepreneurs, Academia, Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists, Banks, Incubators and corporate together and makes them accessible to entrepreneurs.
There are currently over 16,000 members including over 2,500 charter members in 61 chapters across 17 countries.

TiE Delhi - NCR
TiE Delhi - NCR is among the largest and most vibrant chapter across the vast TiE network. In th....More

LetsVenture is India's first and largest startup-investor platform. Founded in late 2013, LetsVenture is the most trusted marketplace for startups to create their investment ready profile, and connect to global, accredited investors for fundraising. Today 6500+ startups, 1200+ angel investors, and 200+ institutional investors from 21 countries are interacting on the platform. 57 startups have closed rounds on LetsVenture with $17M in total commits. Led by a strong team, with some of the best marque angel investors as advisors to the company, LetsVenture is an Accel funded startup, based in Bangalore.

India Entrepreneur's Club is an information destination, disseminating latest news, Success & Failure stories about Entrepreneurs, Business owners and Intrapreneurs with an aim to motivate and educate them to develop and expand beyond defined boundaries.

Being a unique and inimitable voice of and for the Entrepreneurs, we have initiated a platform for mentoring and developing a new breed of young risk takers. We aspire to enrich them with tips, strategies and perspectives from across the world of entrepreneurship; to execute and run businesses efficiently. I.E.C facilitates seamless expansion of knowledge and development of new skills, enhancing relevance and sustenance of lifestyle and business for the target group.

We've envisioned to create a fortified ecosystem comprising of Business Leaders, Start-ups, Private Equity and Venture Funds, M.S.M.E’s, Banks and Financial Institutions and Associations. The focus is to develop the skill of entrepr....More

91springboard is a vibrant coworking community of freelancers, startups and established small to large businesses. We are dedicated to making your work-life easy and fun while playing an integral role in helping your organization grow. Members of 91springboard get access to a coworking space with 24X7 office-infrastructure support, key service providers, knowledge sharing & collaboration, networking and of course, a free spirited culture that breeds innovation!

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